[ Issue #2 ]

KG Newman [Poetry]

 

Roaming Memory

 

The wolves returned and so did we —

decimating elk, angering ranchers,

the romantic voters in the city

pre-determining our fate

as we exit metal crates

in a secret spot in the wilderness

to integrate spacetime with

 

extinction. We may well ignore

the borders given to us.

Bare fangs at the barrels

of our own guns.

Only the months ahead

will tell us of our success:

 

Innumerable tax reimbursements

or balancing the ecosystem.

Divisive or out of sight,

guests of somewhere

deep in the trees,

sieving the small bits of soul

we believe we have left.

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KG Newman is a sportswriter for The Denver Post. His first four collections of poems are available on Amazon and he has been published in scores of literary journals worldwide. The Arizona State University alum is on Twitter @KyleNewmanDP and more info and writing can be found at kgnewman.com. He is the poetry editor of Hidden Peak Press and he lives in Hidden Village, Colorado, with his wife and three kids.